MAY2019People’sRepublicoftheUnitedNationsChina’sEmergingRevisionisminInternationalOrganizationsKristineLeeandAlexanderSullivanAbouttheAuthorsALEXANDERSULLIVANisanAdjunctFellowintheAsia-PacificSecurityProgramattheCenterforaNewAmericanSecurity(CNAS),wherehefocusesonU.S.-Chinarelations,U.S.alliances,andtheroleofenergyingeopolitics.HealsoisadoctoralstudentinpoliticalscienceatGeorgetownUniversity,focusingoninternationalnegotiation,powerpolitics,andU.S.-Chinarelations.KRISTINELEE,aResearchAssociatewiththeAsia-PacificSecurityProgramattheCenterforaNewAmericanSecurity(CNAS),specializesinU.S.nationalsecuritystrategyintheAsia-Pacificregion,withaparticularfocusonNortheastAsia.Lee’shonorsincludereceivingaFulbrightscholarshiptoSouthKorea.SheearnedherBachelorofArtsinhistoryandliteraturefromHarvardCollege,whereshewaseditor-in-chiefoftheHarvardInternationalReview.SheearnedherMasterinPublicPolicyfromtheHarvardKennedySchool,focusingonAsiansecuritystudies.AcknowledgmentsWhiletheauthorsaloneacceptresponsibilityforwhatiswritten,theygivethankstoAbigailGrace(whoprovidedfeedbackonanearlierdraftofthisreport),RogerCliff,ShanthiKalathil,TanviMadan,HunterMarston,TedPiccone,MichaelPillsbury,MatthewSchrader,JenniferStaats,JacobStokes,AliWyne,andothers.Wearedeliberatelyomittingthenamesofseniorofficialsfromwhomwealsohavebenefited.ThisreportwouldnothavebeenpossiblewithoutassistancefromavarietyofCNAScolleagues,includingDanielKliman,AshleyFeng(whoalsoprovidedfeedbackonanearlierdraftofthisreport),JoshuaFitt,NeilBhatiya,EricBrewer,MelodyCook,RichardFontaine,AllisonFrancis,JamesPark,MauraMcCarthy,EllenMcHugh,ElyRatner,ElizabethRosenberg,LorenSchulman,MatthewSeeley,andHannahSuh.CoverArtGettyImageAdaptedbyCNASAbouttheAsia-PacificSecurityProgramTheCNASAsia-PacificSecurityProgramaddressesopportunitiesandchallengesfortheUnitedStatesintheregion,withagrowingfocusonissuesthatoriginateintheAsia-Pacificbuthaveglobalimplications.Itdrawsonateamwithdeepgovernmentandnongovernmentexpertiseinregionalstudies,U.S.fo...
